A town centre's bedraggled Christmas tree is to be exchanged for a spruced-up pine after the local council branded it a "disgrace". The forlorn fir, with droopy, thin branches and browning needles, ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it NASHOTAH, Wis. -- ...

TWO HARBORS, Minn. — One of the most storied shipwrecks on the Great Lakes will mark its 50th anniversary with a packed house on the north shore of Lake Superior. Every November, folks at the ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a Great Lakes ore carrier that sank during a severe storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members. Launched in 1958 and named after the president of ...

WHITEFISH POINT, MI-- Behind thick museum glass at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum sits a 200-pound bronze bell, the centerpiece of an exhibit honoring one of Lake Superior’s most famous maritime ...

"The Gales of November" by John U. Bacon offers a detailed account of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck. The book explores the history of Great Lakes shipping and the lives of the ship's crew members.

Musician Dave Ball, who made up half the British synth-pop band Soft Cell, is dead at 66. Along with singer Mark Almond, Soft Cell was best known for the 1981 hit song “Tainted Love.” Almond ...

Dave Ball, the production half of groundbreaking Eighties synth duo Soft Cell, best remembered for their 1981 New Wave classic cover of “Tainted Love,” died on Wednesday of natural causes. He was 66. ...

Multi-instrumentalist David Ball, who scored a No. 1 hit with 1981’s “Tainted Love” as part of the English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died. He was 66 years old. According to a statement from his ...

Dave Ball, the instrumentalist for the hit ’80s British synth-pop duo Soft Cell, has died at age 66. The band announced on its official Instagram account that the musician “passed away peacefully in ...